I just finished violin practice and I suddenly remembered something while playing The Romantic Pieces (Dvorak = Rojak). The crazy publisher thinks violinists have 5 fingers (i mean they do, on one hand, but only 4 fingers usually press the strings). Usually, there are some fingering suggestions on the scores. Then while my teacher was giving the fingering and bowings, she suddenly realised there was a fifth finger there. It would be quite awkward trying to bend my thumb forward onto the finger board. And I can't imagine vibrato...
The first movement of The Romantic Pieces only has 5.5 bars of 64 bars in first position and most of the time I have to climb around the finger board. Whoever came up with double stops (corelli) and sul G/D/A/E (dunno who, but the victims have to keep shifting positions because they can only use that string for the whole stretch), I don't know what I'll do with them.
I stayed back for TF comm meeting then walked back home. While walking home, I saw people around the Ang Mo Kio neighbourhood. I think I've started thinking a lot more about how unique Singapore is to have such good racial harmony after flipping through the sri lanka/northern Ireland conflict case study in the SS textbook. From when the elderly Indian women gave Jean and I her umbrella, to 2 women of different races happily chatting/complaining about a particular thing.
Brain cells potential cemetery registration (for this week): Accident math test tomorrow, chemistry on Tues, math carnival (A math competition) on Wed, Chinese test on Thurs, Chinese oral on Friday.
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